On 07/03/2018 01:30 PM, Daniel Frey wrote:
Yes, I found out firefox is not smart enough to create a profile when
the directory does not exist. I'm trying to address that with a folder
preference and having mixed results.
FWIW, on Linux, i do:
firefox -CreateProfile "${ff_prof_name}" -new-instance -no-remote
to create a new profile programmatically. Of course, this defaults to creating
it in the HOME directory hierarchy, but you could subsequently move that and
symlink to the new location, or modify profile.ini with non-relative pathing.
$ firefox -CreateProfile TiddlyWinks -no-remote -new-instance
Success: created profile 'TiddlyWinks' at
'/home/sdowdy/.mozilla/firefox/wy8ueze2.TiddlyWinks/prefs.js'
$ awk -v 'RS=\n\n' '/Name=TiddlyWinks/' ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini
[Profile37]
Name=TiddlyWinks
IsRelative=1
Path=wy8ueze2.TiddlyWinks
$ ls -l /home/sdowdy/.mozilla/firefox/wy8ueze2.TiddlyWinks/
total 4
-rw------- 1 sdowdy rap 0 Jul 3 13:45 prefs.js
-rwx------ 1 sdowdy rap 29 Jul 3 13:45 times.json*
There's really not much to a profile directory anymore, it appears.
CreateProfile takes an optional directory argument (embedded in the singular
argument with a space-separator):
$ firefox -CreateProfile "ToddlyWinks /var/tmp/sdowdy/ToddlyWinks" -no-remote
-new-instance
Success: created profile 'ToddlyWinks /var/tmp/sdowdy/ToddlyWinks' at
'/var/tmp/sdowdy/ToddlyWinks/prefs.js'
$ awk -v 'RS=\n\n' '/Name=ToddlyWinks/' ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini
[Profile38]
Name=ToddlyWinks
IsRelative=0
Path=/var/tmp/sdowdy/ToddlyWinks
and that automatically sets the non-relative flag ;)
Now.... Can you count on the Moz Devs to honor the (not well-documented)
Profile management features of the command line? i wouldn't bet on it.
There also appears to be a '-migration' flag for the command line but i don't
know what that does.
firefox -P ToddlyWinks -search "firefox migration command-line" -no-remote
-new-instance
--> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Command_Line_Options
-migration Start with Import Wizard.
Caveats: if the profile name and/or directory already exist, '-CreateProfile' seems to
just say "yeah, i succeeded!"
Also, there's no "-DeleteProfile" matching argument :-/
--stephen
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Stephen Dowdy - Systems Administrator - NCAR/RAL
303.497.2869 - [email protected] - http://www.ral.ucar.edu/~sdowdy/
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